Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:00:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Shutting down X with control+alt+backspace Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906052240310.52250@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm describing. When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut down X with Control+Alt+Backspace became a non-default option. The solution to re-enabling this behavior was to add Option "DontZap" "off" to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags section of xorg.conf as documented in a note in the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html A few days ago, x11/xkeyboard-config was upgraded to 1.6 and the solution in the Handbook is no longer sufficient. The new solution that gets Control+Alt+Backspace working for me again is to add Option "XKbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" to the "InputDevice" section of xorg.conf.
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